BREEZY X WHALE: STUREC
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- Sturec, Les petits ethereum, 2019
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- Sturec, Strenuous, 2019
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- Sturec, Fantasy mountains, 2020
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- Sturec, Ethsicle, 2019
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- Sturec, Day & night, 2020
ABOUT THE PROJECT
$Whale and Breezy started a long-term collaboration to provide a narrative to the WHALE’s “The Vault”, one of the largest and most valuable collections of NFTs in the entire space through art curation.
Each month we highlight a specific creator or theme, providing rich visuals, high-profile artist interviews, gallery events, and more.
For the month of August 2022, the presented artist is STUREC.
CURATORIAL TEXT
Is less more? Very probably, yes; after all, this is Sturec.
“Oniric” is the first word that comes to mind when looking at Sturec’s work. Suggestive of dreams.
For decades, centuries, we have been trying – as humans – to understand dreams. We could write about this forever, and it wouldn’t be enough. What they are, how they manifest, where they belong to, and why. They are simple and yet very complicated. Triggered by the most complex thoughts or by the view of a lake; sometimes leaving permanent marks on psychosomatic reaction, some others disappearing in the nothing. At times forever remembered or forever forgotten.
Sturec’s works are very colorful, but the design is minimal, patterned, precise, symmetrical, and modular. Geometrical, proportioned, balanced. Harmonious.
There is no glitch in Sturec’s art, no error. Or do we have the illusion of this? Isn’t any experimentation or short circuit hidden behind the most harmonious manifestation? Is it reality or a dream?
Geometry, measurements, properties, relationships of points, lines, angles, surfaces…, such an intricate system to study the most perfect and accessible expression of all things: nature.
I am not sure the Golden Ratio is mathematically respected in Sturec’s artworks. But I am sure about the feeling of peace when looking at her art. The Divina Proportione, the equation of perfection, of the absolute beauty in the world.
Come dream with us.
Eleonora Brizi
PRESS RELEASE
Seda Turec, also known as Sturec, is the artist of August for the Vault Collection by Whale.
Born with colors in her hands, Sturec didn’t immediately embrace the artistic career, preferring to invest in an engineering degree in Turkey, her native country. But every experience is a resource for achieving personal fulfillment, and this is very visible in her body of works.
Looking at Sturec’s works, we see the same technical (and technological) studies that inspired the masterpieces of Italian Futurism at the beginning of the 20th century.
The search for space, creative enthusiasm, speed, and the desire to go beyond the human limits. After a century, these feelings and sensations are projected into the digital world, restoring the movement and the feverish pulse of the Web 3.0 progress.
Technology, therefore, is not an aid to the executive process itself, but rather an extension of the creative devices that allow the coexistence of distant elements, supports, and materials in the real world. In this way, paradoxes of the technique are created in which the soft tones of the watercolor blend with the clean and graphic line of the tattoo, the different textures and surfaces of the stone coexist in the same digital work, and again, plays of color are disturbed by signal interference. It is no coincidence that Sturec defines herself as a “multiform” artist, precisely because with the digital, she experiences the coexistence of different techniques and expressive modes that could not exist in the physical medium.
Of course, art generally represents real life and the facts but then again, working with an extensive color scheme represents, maybe, hope for a better future?…
Through her entrance in the crypto art scene back in mid-2019, Sturec experiences the feeling of belonging to a community that shares values and similar mindset. Since her debut, Whale has welcomed the artist into its collection. And the appointment to present and discuss her work will be, as usual, at the end of the month on the Arium Space platform.
ARIUM SHOW
Visit the space: https://arium.xyz/spaces/whale-sturec
